> You're absolutely right that it can happen if enough people are > interested in doing it. That's what OSS is all about. And if > it happens, > that would be great.
This is the main target for my initial post: check whether enough interested developers could be found. > My comment is just about what is *likely* to happen without any sudden > new inflow of volunteers. The original poster suggested it would be a > good idea, but didn't volunteer to spend the next six months coding > it :-). Having a created a rather extensive company internal comp-set we searched for ways to let some of the stuff flow back to the community. And the first post is inspired by this. We could use our experience and some of the ideas and code-inspirations (our code is too heavily dependant on not opensourceable internal code) to participate in such a product. regards Alexander
